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Well, after just reading vol. 14 there are still a few questions left unanswered, and that final page.....WOW. Also this was the end of the FIRST arc in this series. I wonder how many more are planned? Glad I bought each volume though. Supporting this series by buying them helps insure we get the next part of this series which has become one of my favorites.

Okay, so, we get a happy ending I assume? Is Yuki okay? Does Bourgiani get is comeuppance, Now that they know she can be an adult, does she stay that way and have issues with the remaining clan? Can she now marry Akira? See, these are things you haven't answered, and THAT'S what I want to know. There is a way to put that here but not reveal it for those who do not want to know. When you post, there is a little yellow triangle on the bar above where you write. It will slide aside from time to time to show someone as if they were peaking at something. This is the spoiler button. You can make as much of your dialogue that way as you want, telling people that if they click the spoiler button, they can read it, but if they don't want to know, they don't have to. This is what I am asking YOU to do, so I can see it, but you won't spoil it for others if they don't want it spoiled.

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"Fear is ignorance in a state of panic."
(Quote from Jean-Claude in my Fan Fiction: Karin: Enter the D'amphile.)

the path for Akria and Mina has been cleared, Yuki is ok and can now speak, but is still in a wheelchair the fake Mina and the real one have a showdown which end with the fake escaping with no where to go at the moment and everyone thinks its all over. Meanwhile in South America the other Akria discovers something....

the path for Akria and Mina has been cleared, Yuki is ok and can now speak, but is still in a wheelchair the fake Mina and the real one have a showdown which end with the fake escaping with no where to go at the moment and everyone thinks its all over. Meanwhile in South America the other Akria discovers something....

Spoiler for Volume 14:

I don't think that's vampire Akira at the end, there. Given the gun he sets down, I suspect it's the yet-unidentified individual from volume 10, who first freed Mina from Rozenmann, which allowed her to spend a while hiding with a human family, and get a short call out to Akira, before she was captured again.

@ paldin313:

Spoiler:

The other Akira comes from a short sidestory manga, Dive in the Vampire Bund. It is part of the official canon, but was released separately, so if you only follow the main Dance in the Vampire Bund you can find yourself confused. Essentially he's a guy who was bitten by some vampires who were working against Mina, and they used their control as his "masters" to make him and a friend who was bitten with him help them destroy most of the stockpiles of the anti-vampire vaccine that the Bund had. That's why there's been a shortage of the stuff in these later volumes of Dance in the Vampire Bund. He eventually uses one last vial of it to save a girl who had been kidnapped and bitten, rather than save himself with it.

Anyway, he's become somewhat relevant recently in Dance in the Vampire Bund as a secondary character.

Borgianni chose to publically claim responsibility for all the disasters that had been happening, stating that he had had the true queen Mina exiled from the Bund and replaced with an imposter and that all the attacks on humans were his fault and so on. Essentially, he took the blame so that nobody would try to accuse the real Mina of having been responsible for any of the horror that had been happening. At the end, he forced Akira to fight him to the death, and was killed, accepting his death as the only way he could atone for the crimes he had accepted.

We don't know for sure where the fake Mina came from, although she does openly state that "our" Mina is the true Mina who holds the true bloodline of Tepes, and that she (the fake) does not. She is very close, very similar, enough to open a door that should only open to a true blooded vampire, but also just off enough that it triggered the security system in the place that door led to. We can guess that she was created from Rozenmann's experiments with the mother of all vampires, in the Cradle that Mina found beneath his castle in the Amazon. The name of her organization "Telomere" is certainly something that would lead one's mind to the concept of cloning, although she said in the past that she wasn't exactly a clone. But we don't really know for sure who or what she is. She got extremely angry when Mina asked her exactly that question.

We don't know what the relationship will be now with the Bund and Japan. With Beowulf's support the rioting has been stopped, and they tracked down who was controlling the Pied Piper and reprogrammed it to direct the rogue vampires into the Bund, so the dangers on the outside have been dealt with. Councilor Gotoh's position may be at risk, since she openly defied the government by requesting Beowulf's assistance, and had to be rescued by them from being arrested. She did save the city, but I don't expect those other politicians to care about minor things like that, considering how they were wasting time arguing about jurisdiction while the whole thing was practically burning around them.

What I am curious about...

Spoiler:

...is Tatiana. She displayed partial werewolf transformations twice in this volume. As far as we know, that is impossible. There are no female werewolves. The trait for lycanthropy can only appear in males: it is carried on the Y-chromosome. Either something is srastically wrong with the understanding people think they have of lycanthropy, or Tatiana may not actually be Tatiana at all. May not even be female.

Of course, we should have realized ever since Akira was bitten by Mina that a fundamental change seems to have occured in what people thought was true about werewolves. According to the information in volume 12, the change that supposedly prevented werewolf/vampire hybrids was made at the same time as the change the prevented there from being any female werewolves. If the hybrid change has come undone in at least one case (and we know it has) then perhaps over the generations werewolves have simply begun to adapt to the changes made to their DNA, and overcome them.

So now what? A new story begins? It doesn't seem Telomere has any need to bother Mina anymore. If the double will just go her own way and leave the Bund alone, I imagine no one will give her any trouble.

Indeed, it now seems they can be wed, and oh, won't that curl the lip of the one remaining house, (that is, if Rozenmann wasn't killed)! Now Mina doesn't have to hide her true form, and,

if this is it, oh what an open end for fanfic writers like me, and if not, get ready for more adventures! All I need is a good plot, launching point, and a non-Mary Sue/Gary Stu OC, but who is interesting enough to make it a good story...

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"Fear is ignorance in a state of panic."
(Quote from Jean-Claude in my Fan Fiction: Karin: Enter the D'amphile.)

I was kinda pissed/sad for Vera's death, it would have been different if she had been killed during the battle, but as sappy as it sounds she died from a broken heart. She doubted who the real Mina was and she couldn't forgive herself for it. I wasn't ready for that honestly.

True, but you have to think that, now that Mina and Akira can wed, she has someone that can be with her all the way, and the guardianship Vera provided really wasn't needed anymore, so I guess the need for the character went away. Sad they did that, though. I liked her character, and the could have found another use for her.

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"Fear is ignorance in a state of panic."
(Quote from Jean-Claude in my Fan Fiction: Karin: Enter the D'amphile.)

A new volume of the Dive in the Vampire Bund side-story manga has been released in the US. It's set roughly around the time of volume 6 of the main storyline, and is canon. Apparently some of these stories were actually meant to be released around that time, thus giving us introductions to at least one character who later became at least mildly important in the main story, but they were delayed for some reason.

As before, the main character is the vampire Akira: Akira Garcia Fujisaki. However, this volume also gives us a significant view into the life of the little goth girl we've seen periodically in the main storyline: the leader of Alphonse Borgiani's group of elite gothloli spies. She is a very interesting character once you get to know her. We also learn her name. Or her first name, at least.

And there is yet another sidestory manga that will be released here in the near future that will apparently be focused on the past of Inspector Hamaseiji. That should prove fascinating.

Dance in the Vampire Bund isn't gone folks... unlike, aparently, most of the people around here who read it. The main story is expected to continue in the future as well. You all get back here and say stuff!

"I do not hate you. I do not think your a monster just another species trying to live like us humans. If there is a monster in this world its nature itself for wanting and allowing spectacles of death and destruction."

I noticed that on several occasions in the manga Mina's unknown father is referred to as a nameless 'mongrel', but during Mina's confrontation with Rozenman the latter insulted Mina by calling her a 'pup'. Could this mean that Mina's father might've been a werewolf?
Also this is unrelated, but could the fur pieces sticking out from Akira's back in his hybrid form be undeveloped wings?

I noticed that on several occasions in the manga Mina's unknown father is referred to as a nameless 'mongrel', but during Mina's confrontation with Rozenman the latter insulted Mina by calling her a 'pup'. Could this mean that Mina's father might've been a werewolf?

Spoiler:

That could explain why he didn't die when she bit him. It's not that he survived because he was special somehow, but rather because she herself was an hybrid.

At any rate, if it's true that she's a hybrid (and it's a pretty big "if"), I hope the sequel (if they ever do one) will reveal her awakened hybrid form. It would be epic.

That could explain why he didn't die when she bit him. It's not that he survived because he was special somehow, but rather because she herself was an hybrid.

At any rate, if it's true that she's a hybrid (and it's a pretty big "if"), I hope the sequel (if they ever do one) will reveal her awakened hybrid form. It would be epic.

if she was a hybrid she would have trouble holding on to the throne most nobles will not respect her at all i very much doubt her father was werewolf she would have shown signs already

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"I do not hate you. I do not think your a monster just another species trying to live like us humans. If there is a monster in this world its nature itself for wanting and allowing spectacles of death and destruction."

Not necessarily, the Father's curse forbids any of the progeny of the first queen and their progeny ad infinitum from being anything other than a female in the image of her own mother.
Perhaps the curse overrules her father's genes somehow. And it's not like any of the three great houses loyally abide to Mina's orders, if anything they despise her and would rather see her dead, but as luck would have it her death means the end of the royal line.
They have insulted her, harmed her and her closest and on numerous occasions attempted to force her to submit. Not to mention that they killed her mother.
The nobles that follow her do so due to the blood coven and due to personal reasons.

I consider those theories unlikely. The terms he was using simply indicate that he thinks her bloodline is impure. While "mongrel" is used most often for dogs, all it really means is that the creature in question is of mixed or undetermined parentage. And "pup" is just a derogatory statement about her age. He's calling her a bastard child, too young, inexperienced, stupid, and ill-bred to understand things the way an older, more experienced, and properly-bred person (obviously like himself) does.

Since I'm here, the first volume of The Memories of the Sledgehammer manga has been released in the US. While a fair amount of it is in flashback, the manga itself is set three months after the end of the last Dance volume, so it is chronologically a continuation. The Bund is still recovering from the attacks and Telomere's occupation. Many of the fangless died in the fake Mina's attempt to excavate the Cradle under Mount Fuji, including the father of those three children we see semi-regularly. Mina is having trouble trying to run things having lost both Vera as her aide and business manager and Borgiani as head of the intelligence division. Her maids; Nelly, Nella, and Nero; are attempting to fill in for Vera with limited success. No information is given on who might be taking over in intelligence, although I hope that a certain gothloli who was recently focused on in Dive in the Vampire Bund might step into the position.

The biggest focus is on Councilor Gotoh, who resigned her position as abmassador to the Bund due to the issues near the end of the last volume, but thanks to popular support of her and Mina having pretty much saved Tokyo, is now running for a seat in the house. Some anti-vampire fanatics are trying to kill or kidnap her due to her alliance with Mina, and somehow her past and Hama's past together play into all of it.